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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Supplanted would be my bet. The human animal does not evolve at sufficient speed for change to be observable over the course of a few generations.
Professional sport was a thing in the highly urbanized societies of ancient Greece and Rome, disappeared in the Middle Ages, and did not appear again until the early 19th century. It has existed in a small minority of cultures for a small portion of history. For it to disappear again would be nothing new.
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Only by way of a very loosely construed definition of "professional." There were elite athletic competitions in antiquity, but nothing even remotely comparable to modern-day professional sports. There were no sporting economies, and athletics were not vocations.
I am of two minds on this: I believe most likely either supplanted by another form of entertainment—which I suspect will emerge with the evolution of VR and role-playing to supplant all current forms of entertainment. On the other hand, I have a more dystopian view by which our future environmental and social concerns will overtake most of our leisure pursuits.